From: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nfs fstat st_blocks overreporting
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:00:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031013180051.A8501@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16266.50390.93346.47602@charged.uio.no>; from trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no on Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:29:26AM -0400
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:29:26AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> writes:
>
> > While you know I disagree that s_blocksize should be wtmult
> > (ie, it is wtmult?wtmult:512 and I think it should be
> > MAX(rsize,wsize)), in any event the blocks used reporting is
> > incorrect in that it assumes a 512 byte blocksize.
>
> Frank,
>
> man 2 stat
>
> i_blocks a.k.a. stat->st_blocks is _defined_ to be in 512byte
> units. It bears no relation to the st_blksize. If you don't like that,
> spec then by all means appeal to the POSIX committee that wrote
> it. (You probably wouldn't be the first to do so)
>
> Pending the outcome of such an appeal, though, the patch must be
> rejected...
I'm an idiot.
/fc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-14 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-13 14:53 nfs fstat st_blocks overreporting Frank Cusack
2003-10-13 15:29 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-10-14 1:00 ` Frank Cusack [this message]
2003-10-13 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
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